lustrate

Latin lustratus, past participle of lustrare (“to lustrate”), from lustrum. See lustrum.

lustrate (third-person singular simple present lustrates, present participle lustrating, simple past and past participle lustrated)

1. To make clear or pure by means of a propitiatory offering; to purify.
   • c. 1650, Henry Hammond, Miscellaneous Theological Works of Henry Hammond, D. D., Vol. 3 (1850 edition), Sermon 23, p. 503 (Google preview):

     We must purge, and cleanse, and lustrate the whole city.

   • 1853, Charles Kingsley, Hypatia, ch. 20:

     "Well," said Hypatia, more and more listlessly; "it might be more prudent to show them first the fairer and more graceful side of the old Myths. . . . I wish to lustrate them afresh for the service of the gods."

   • 1909, Edith Wharton, "An Autumn Sunset" in Artemis to Actaeon and Other Poems:

     Mid-zenith hangs the fascinated day

     In wind-lustrated hollows crystalline.

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lustrate

1. second-person plural present indicative of lustrare
2. second-person plural imperative of lustrare
3. feminine plural of lustrato

lustrāte

1. vocative masculine singular of lustrātus